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Mortuary ritual of the Badagas of Southern India (2001)

Author: Hockings, Paul
Volume: Fieldiana, Anthropology, new series, no.32
Subject: Badaga (Indic people) -- Funeral customs and rites; Badaga (Indic people) -- Religion; Funeral rites and ceremonies -- India Nilgiri Hills; Nilgiri Hills (India) -- Religious life and customs
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Field Museum of Natural History
Possible copyright status: In copyright. Digitized with permission of the Chicago Field Museum. Contact dcc@library.illinois.edu for information.
Language: English
Call number: 4340619
Digitizing sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Book contributor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Collection: biodiversity; fieldiana
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-72)

The Badagas -- The ebb of life -- Preparation for a funeral: The moments before death -- Preparation for the ceremony -- The funeral: Taking away the corpse -- Display of the corpse -- The procession -- Badaga funerals: a photo essay -- The ultimate separation: Burial of the dead -- Cremation -- Concluding remarks -- Commemoration of the ancestors -- Funeral symbolism: some conclusions

Fieldiana series has been published as Anthropological Series by Field Columbian Museum (1895-1909) and Field Museum of Natural History (1909-1943), and as Fieldiana: Anthropology by Chicago Natural History Museum (1945-1966) and Field Museum of Natural History (1966-)

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